Chandrakant Lahariya

Chandrakant Lahariya

Chandrakant Lahariya is an Indian medical doctor, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, public health, and policy expert and writer. His work centers around strengthening health systems , public policy interventions to address health inequities and to develop innovative models for health service delivery.Lahariya is the lead author of book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 pandemic, with Randeep Guleria of AIIMS, New Delhi and Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College, Vellore. He has been considered as one of the credible 'voices of reason' during COVID-19 pandemic in India.In early 2008, Lahariya joined the World Health Organization in India, where – for the next few years- he coordinated the organization's work on the new vaccines introduction in the country. He specifically worked on the formulation of National Vaccine Policy of India, and on the introduction of Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccine as well as scale up of Hepatitis B vaccine across the Indian states.

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